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On Feb 15th I placed an order with a supplier for two power-tec SCSI cards.

After a lot of chasing and excuses they eventually arrived on June 5th after
##_15 weeks_##.

I hate software protection. Which should have nothing to do with the power-tec
card which is hardware.

However when you load the installation program the �rst thing it does is beep at
you and complain that it has not been installed. At this point you are trying to
to RTFM and �nd out how to install it.

So the software beeps at you again, rudely, after about 20 seconds. The software
won�t let you read the manual -  it keeps insisting it hasn�t been installed by
beepin every 20 seconds.

After getting thoroughly beeped at, you eventually �nd the installation bit and
have to write in a user name  etc: fairly normal protection for software - but
this is a **hardware SCSI card**.

We bought two cards. The software is on a 1.6mB disk and the second �puter is a
440/1 which only reads 800k discs. So I copied my installation program onto
another disc.

My colleague (who has the second �puter at another location) has just phoned to
say that he can�t use the software as it as registered to me.

This is unforgivable in software. When the software has one of the largest
dongles possible attached (the SCSI card) it is downright stupid and
obstructionist. I bought SCSI cards, not software. The software is incidental to
the hardware. 

I am emailing a copy of this to Allsystems for their reply but I wish I had
bought a competitor�s product. You are all warned.
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